Elon Musk just reignited his feud with Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have butted heads over the years. Elon Musk has taken aim at Jeff Bezos once more, reigniting the war of words between the world’s two richest people. In a X post on Thursday, Musk said that Bezos had told people to dump their shares in his companies because Donald Trump…
Taiwan plans to spend $1B a year pivoting its economy from semiconductors to AI
Taiwan plans to inject $3 billion over 3 years into its AI industry, the country’s science and technology minister told Nikkei Asia. Taiwan is planning to spend about $1 billion a year on artificial intelligence as part of its efforts to shift its economy away from semiconductors. On Thursday, Taiwan’s science and technology minister told Nikkei…
Bravo is the only cable TV network Comcast isn’t getting rid of. Here’s why.
Bravo shows like “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” have been a success on Peacock. Comcast wasn’t bluffing about unloading its steadily declining cable TV networks. The cable giant is officially planning to spin off most of its pay-TV channels, in a move that’s the latest indictment of the sad state of the traditional…
This startup wants to bring TikTok shopping into the real world
Outlandish is an official TikTok Shop agency partner. Welcome to the TikTok-era shopping mall. A new brick-and-mortar store from the e-commerce startup Outlandish is bringing to life the world of TikTok Shop. It sits on a busy street in Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade, wedged between a Sephora and a Chipotle. B-17 stepped inside the…
Nvidia’s Blackwell era will test the world’s most valuable company in a highwire act
Nvidia’s new AI chip, Blackwell, is key to the company’s next growth phase. Nvidia looks set to end the year as confidently as it started. How next year plays out will significantly depend on the performance of Blackwell, its next-generation AI chip. The Santa Clara-based chip giant reminded everyone why it has grown more than…
Here’s what analysts are saying about Nvidia earnings
Jensen Huang is CEO of Nvidia and one of the world’s richest people. Nvidia delivered another strong set of quarterly results after the bell on Wednesday, beating estimates. Here’s what analysts are saying about the world’s most valuable company. Wedbush analysts, including Dan Ives, issued another typically bullish note on Thursday: “In another earnings performance…
Netflix’s ‘Joy’ tells the story of the first IVF baby. Here’s where Louise Brown is now.
Bill Nighy as Patrick Steptoe, Thomasin McKenzie as Jean Purdy, and James Norton as Robert Edwards in Netflix’s “Joy.” “Joy” is about the British doctors who helped conceive the first baby using IVF treatment in the late 1970s. The Netflix movie stars Bill Nighy as Patrick Steptoe, the director of the Centre for Human Reproduction,…
Bitcoin rockets toward $100,000 as Trump reportedly considers appointing a ‘crypto czar’
Bitcoin continued to climb to fresh all-time highs on Thursday, approaching six-figure territory on news that President-elect Donald Trump is considering candidates for a position dedicated toward steering cryptocurrency policy. Bitcoin jumped 4% in the early morning, trading around $97,920. The token, which is nearing a $2 trillion market cap, was the most-traded cryptocurrency Thursday…
Here’s what 5 CEOs learned by becoming undercover bosses
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu When Kelly Ortberg became Boeing CEO in October, he issued a rallying cry for company leaders: Get back on the factory floor. He’s not the only leader who thinks bosses are too far from the coal face. Some executives have said those who regularly spend time on the shop floor have…
